I think its better if the stances were activated in some mod because I like the way how this game was made.

Maybe people who purchased stances could have access to some "hidden" servers that require you to have the stance.

Let me address all the problems here.
If one player has a custom stance, and another doesn't. That's immediately an unfair advantage because they will be able to reach in to their opener much quicker than the enemy
-You could argue that if one player had a stance active then the other player would use that stance as well, but the player who originally had the stance would be much more experience with his own stance.
There's simply no need for it, the default stance is fine and keeps both players at a fair advantage at the start of the match.
-It was suggested that this is a pay for item, in which case, that really makes it unfair.

See, I'm fine with this. If it does get implemented, I'd hope it'd be toggleable. If it's not then that really sucks because it ruins a lot of mods. It brings skill out of the game.

i wonder how many people have to disagree until this idea is thrown in the trash where it belongs


clearly you see things differently than 9/10 of the community, take that into consideration before you make a suggestion as a TWITCH STREAMER AND COMMENTATOR, not a developer.

Ummmmmm TRichard has already done this through modding.
http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=498873

Why does there need to be a huge update about it?
If someone wants to have stances, just go make it like TR did instead of buying it lol.

Btw if this is an april fool's joke.........

At first I thought this was a terrible idea because it encouraged a pay-to-win environment

Now, I'm convinced that this might be a welcome addition to the game if some tweaks are made to it. For starters, scrapping the whole "Buy stances with money" and instead allow players to unlock new stances when they achieve x amount of qi (Reach a certain belt)

Let's say that there are five different stances:

Stance A: Default Stance

Stance B: Unlocked at Blue belt

Stance C: Unlocked at Black belt

Stance D: Unlocked at 2nd dan Black Belt

Stance E: Unlocked at 5th dan Black Belt



Later stances will only be able to be used against players of similar belts or higher to prevent newer players from becoming too confused. Earlier stances are safer, while later stances are more geared towards risky maneuvers such as starting upside down, which allows you to open with a helicopter kick of sorts

If it's developed this way, you might be able to think of stances as openers. For example, a shovel in Aikido or a snapkick in TK might appear as cheap tactics but they can be easily countered if you know a how to. Similarly, if you know that a player likes using x stance and use x opener, you might use y stance with y opener in order to counter that easily and gain the upper hand.

Newer players who watch higher-ranked belt players fight might find those openers to be extremely enticing and may be encouraged to buy qi or boosters, if you're really set on generating some money for Nabi.

Thoughts?

If this does warrant a test please make it public, free, and heavily moderated with a poll with a feedback thread posted here, and on Steam. I'm just so frustrated that I don't even know what to type and I'm just staring at my screen like, "...really...", for about 15 minutes. If it were a game option; just like how you can tick dismemberment, fracture, and disqualification, then it would be alright at best. People are looking at the absolute worst about this. That's fine and all, but I think new fun and more creativity can come of this as-well.

In the long run, a few new rules will be implemented on the forum side. Duel scam reports, people complaining about x starter over y starter, yadda-yadda.

If this were for private servers to have fun in, cool. If it takes over and you can do this in any server, I'll be disgusted.

if it's toggleable and free it'd be pretty cool.

I'm not heading to your Youtube channel so you can profit off the discussion. This is a game related change, discuss it in the game's forum.


"Last Match LesDuncan was defeated by paopao0389 on Jul 24, 2014."
You don't even play this game anymore. Why mess it up for others with your out-of-touch idea? You guys need to tune down all this p2w mentality. There are other ways to make money, you don't have to ruin the game by doing so.

I'd also like to hear about what you mean by black market, that's new to me.

How are you going to make more money when this implementation shrinks down the playerbase

Meaning: having faith in making the game "more accessable" (nicely said) for new people to discover it so the playerbase increases is the worst one could do for a game like Toribash. I wouldn't even think about relying on this.